Criminal Justice- American Law

I think I could take this one on if I knew what Robert Bellah commented. Let me share with you what I know about John Locke.

John Locke founded the school of empiricism. Empiricism, in philosophy, a doctrine that affirms that all knowledge is based on experience, and denies the possibility of spontaneous ideas or a priori thought. John Locke was the first to give it systematic expression. The philosophy opposed to empiricism is rationalism, represented by such thinkers as the French philosopher René Descartes, among a few others. Rationalists assert that the mind is capable of recognizing reality by means of the reason, a faculty that exists independent of experience.

Is this part of Robert Bellah's comment towards John Locke, or is it something else?